Friday, January 1, 2016

The blonde man put his hands up and said "Is this for real." He seemed genuinely shocked. I saw no more after that. I sent a message to my sister suggesting they look into what the crew had to say. Information started filtering through on a Facebook page that had been set up by Sean's distraught family and through the media.
Sean Terry, a very experienced skipper, had been sailing around the globe, mostly solo, on his yacht Finnegan. Sean and an Austrian scuba diver named Stefan Pokorney, set out from Sri Lanka across the Indian Ocean via the Maldives to the Chagos Archipelago and were to sail on to Madagascar and finally home to Cape Town for Christmas.